A multitude of persons enter a great wood in darkness. Each seeks a jewel of immeasurable value, and each carries a light. For some the light is strong and wide; for others it is dim and narrow - a candle, a torch, a flashlight. Do we berate the seeker of the jewel because of his light? Can he see beyond into the darkness unlit? Compassion brightens all lights. Tolerance stems from understanding. The people all described the woods according to the view; as the elephant is described by the touch.
The experience unknowing gives way to reason. The sight of intellect gives way to feeling. Feeling flies higher and sees more, giving way to spirit; spirit to heart, to Truth.
Love lights the heavens and earth; connecting through breath the denseness to all expanse. Heart is the searchlight and sun which penetrates to the furthest corner, and over all gives perspective; for it is also as the Great Light, dispensing shadow of mind, intellect, and filters of experience. It is as the microscope and the telescope combined in one - connected to, of, the sight of sights, knowing, being, truth.
Inbreath, outbreath, discarding lesser. Shadow gone in heart. Direct I know and see. Be. From there/here all light, the view forever, encompassing all. Letting go of little eyes, reliance on the lesser, stage upon stage, resting in heart's expansion, breath of love, all view; the forest is not dark. The jewel is here.